How to format your references using the Frontiers in Endocrinology of Aging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Endocrinology of Aging. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Kerr, R. A. (2000). PLANETARY SCIENCE: Making a Splash With a Hint of Mars Water. Science 288, 2295–2297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Price, D. J., and Rosswog, S. (2006). Producing ultrastrong magnetic fields in neutron star mergers. Science 312, 719–722.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eremtchenko, M., Schaefer, J. A., and Tautz, F. S. (2003). Understanding and tuning the epitaxy of large aromatic adsorbates by molecular design. Nature 425, 602–605.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Couny, F., Benabid, F., Roberts, P. J., Light, P. S., and Raymer, M. G. (2007). Generation and photonic guidance of multi-octave optical-frequency combs. Science 318, 1118–1121.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

J.G. Upton, G. (2016). Categorical Data Analysis by Example. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vandebrouck, F. ed. (2013). Mathematics Classrooms: Students’ Activities and Teachers’ Practices. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Cooke, R. (2016). “The Precipice of Myth: Mythology/Epistemology,” in Myth and Narrative in International Politics: Interpretive Approaches to the Study of IR, ed. B. Bliesemann de Guevara (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK), 67–85.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Frontiers in Endocrinology of Aging.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015). Shell Gets Final Permit To Allow It To Begin Drilling In The Arctic. IFLScience.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1997). Strategic Mobility: Late Deliveries of Large, Medium Speed Roll-On/Roll-Off Ships. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Olsen, S. L. (2017). A Year of Sin An Experiential Exhibition of Sin. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Kanter, J. (2016). European Leaders Debate Proposals for Closer Military Ties. New York Times, A6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kerr, 2000; Price and Rosswog, 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Price and Rosswog, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Couny et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Endocrinology of Aging
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
Scope